It comes after Donald Trump said he had spoken directly with Vladimir Putin to begin planning a meeting between the Russian leader and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky

John Healey dismissed suggestions that the UK’s approach to the Ukraine war is to ‘watch and wait’ as Russian and American delegations arrived in Alaska for crunch talks

Sir Keir Starmer is to meet President Zelensky in No 10 after Donald Trump warned Russia of 'severe consequences' if it does not stop the war ahead of Friday's summit with Putin in Alaska